Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin

By definition; whoever did this is a terrorist.

Are we suddenly supposed to be concerned now that 52 are dead; after nearly 40,000 have already perished in Syria?

This admin was quick to help rebel insurgents overthrow Gaddafi; why turn a blind eye to this genocide / civil war?

Reuters, have the rebels killed any civilian at all since the beginning of this conflict?

This is what Reuters describes as “rebels’ advance”

@jaham, the Adm is helping terrorists along with Saudi arabia,Qatar, Turkey and Nato allies. If they stop helping insurgents within a month or two, all these killings would stop.

By the opposition own account, 70% in Aleppo supports the current government. If they say 70, it’s probably more. That’s why they’re resorting to terror

This was a failed coup attempt against the Syrian government driven by the US and its allies. Now they’re just directing terror activities hoping they will push Assad out of power.

What they are doing to Syria, they did it in latin america for years(Nicaragua,….)

“Each side in the 22-month-old conflict blamed the other for Tuesday’s blasts at the University of Aleppo, located in a government-held area of Syria’s most populous city.”

This is what the media do best. Everytime there is a mass killing by rebels they create confusion talking about each side blaming the other… the article has just changed in front of our eyes by a bunch of contributors who you can see at the bottom of the article…

The Syrian government is reporting a death toll of over 80 killed and 160 wounded. It appears that the insurgents used rockets or some kind of missiles. Who gave them those rockets?

When insurgents suffer losses fighting the army, they take revenge killing civilians (like in Houla….).

The insurgents are losing ground. This is why Reuters is using the word “stalemate”. This mass killing is also a way for their masters to keep them in the news and keep the subversion against Syria alive …

@Fromkin…fair enough…I don’t see it as yet a failure in that light though; rather it looks like it will eventually be a success, albeit a very slow and bloody “success”.

Are you firm in your assumption that Assad will retain power?

@arch_Stanton
I agree

@TruthMonitor
Reuters has reported insurgent atrocities such as summary executions and civilian deaths caused by rebels… Dig a little. The stories are there

@Fromkin
First. I am proud to see you finally describing the rebels as insurgents… Much more applicable definition in my opinion given the goals of the movement… Second. Is Syria still mostly at peace with the majority of the population unaware of any fighting? If not, when did things change? Third, when can we meet in Homs so you can show me how wrong Reuters has been regarding the fighting and destruction there? You talked a big game last year but seem unwilling to back up your statements with an actual trip to backup you assertions… I have late April and early August open and can try to rearrange something to fit your schedule… How about if, u up for going to Syria to prove your points or are you all talk and no action?
Prayers to the people of Syria. Unlike Nicaragua, the nation has a well equipped and trained national army with some fairly up to date Russian equipment… If your government cannot stop a few unwelcome armed gangs for wreaking havoc, u need a new government… Also, @ Fromkin. If you really want the bloodshed to stop, get Russian to stop their arm flows to the insurgents… I have yet to see an Ar15 in the hands of the rebels, everything they use is Russian and Chinese made. How can the use of these weapons be the Unites States fault? Gee, we could be making bank selling them.
Go Non terrorist Insurgents!! And Roll Tide Roll!!!

I don’t even have to read this story carefully to say I’m surprised that universities were still in operation. It makes me realize with far more certainty that the insurgency is really a cynically manipulated slow spreading disease that really should be fought but will do as much damage to the patient as chemo can do to a victim of cancer.

If Human_Friend is still alive, I was wrong. Now I understand why you were grateful for your questioning by the security forces. I would have been offended but you know your neighborhood far better.

However – I am still offended every time I see a too eager attempt to increase security here. All it means is some new hungry contractor is more than eager to peddle his wares to the government, at what are probably inflated prices, and is more than willing to protect the homeland to death, if necessary, as long as he gets his contract. If the quality of life is going to hell here and the country is going to be forever an armed and paranoid camp, it can also be one hell of a con job and the ultimate indignity and scourge of cowards that expects Charon’s passengers to have to pay the Ferryman.

Knowing that their fate is sealed — with little expectation of mercy — Assad and his followers are in a destructive mode dangerous to us all.
Either we take then out now or we deal with their mess later.
And forget Russia. The world community must act now and neither Russia nor China have any moral grounds to stop us.
Besides, we have waited for these two long enough.

TruthMonitor: Anyone killed by the rebells is by definition one of Assad’s soldiers. If these students were killed by bombs from air planes, as the rebells have informed the western media, then they are innocent martyrs. But if they were killed by the rebells, they have noone to blame but themselves.

More American tax dollars at work. This is the type of actions that the US government support and funds. Oh and the thugs that carried out this attack, the UK government considers them the legitimate government of the Syrian people. Probably a NATO made mortar shot from a NATO tank given to these thugs.

Their gonna take your guns in the US and then give them to these Wahabbi thugs to murder more innocent Syrians.

Civil war??? Hah! Was George Washington and the boys carrying out acts like this trying gain their freedom

@ Slammy. Good to see you back. Where is your standard phrase “Go Sunni?” Or have the attacks on the Hazara and the Aleppo university finally embarassed you into not cheering them on anymore?

@kafantaris and nossnevs – your two are blind fanatics. There is no better description for you.

It might be wise though, for the Assad regime to open the situation to some kind of international fact checkers. But it is obvious that neither the regime nor the insurgency believes in the integrity of international opinion either. I haven’t in over ten years. It is flooded with too much money.

What I found disgusting about the situation the so-called freedom fighters are forcing on Syria is they are so typical of the modern world. It wants everything, it wants it now and it doesn’t want to suffer the slightest inconvenience or modification of its demands, whether they are reasonable or not. It is the spoiled brat’s version of political struggle. The Syrians are not the long-suffering people aching under the abuse of a tyrannical regime, and neither are most of the people in ME countries. The truth is you, and even most people in the world are spoiled rotten and some of the most demanding brats history has ever seen. The insurgency did not spend years of patient consensus building or even, South Africa or India like, have to endure years of persecution patiently, by the forces that be, to prove to themselves and to everyone else that they are more than a corrupt bunch of power grabbers, and that they aren’t just making “promises” they could as easily forswear the moment they suffer a set back or difficulty or even that they intend to do a damn thing differently once they get their own “tyrannical” asses on the seats of Syrian government power and into the state’s bank accounts. They are also doing nothing to suggest they aren’t a lethal disease full of hyper aggressive homicidal youth eager to test their manhood and high tech weapons. Ammunition and balls isn’t going to be enough to change your future form the state you claim to something significantly better because you are too easy to co-opt by the commercial and existing super powers that be. You are little more than over eager cannon fodder without the senses or perspective you were obviously never born with.

What the future of the ME turn into the land where every ten year the regions countries become blood baths as the very aggressive self immolate because they really have nothing better to do. Watch the rest of the western world join you too expect that we have far higher percentages of older people now than you do. Any death wishes I have had over the years will be answered soon enough the usual way.

And don’t even try to argue with me here. I’d spit in your face if I could see them.

Watch the future turn into .. it should have said. And “accept” not “expect”.

@jaham

This is what I Know from watching this conflic.

The rebels/insurgents will never gain the upper hand against the Syrian armed forces. Their gains are exaggerated/magnified 10x by western media.

Rebels/insurgents’offensives are mostly lead by their partners in the media. This is where the most damage is done against the Syrian government. After media propaganda, you have hit and run attacks and bombings like today in aleppo and in Irak. These actions are destructive but not enough to win against an loyal and organized army. Assad conceded that his ennemies control the airwaves but the Syrian government has control on the ground.

I’ve noticed that the last few days have been quiet on rebels’ front. Their attack against Damascus in November where, according to Reuters, they encircled the airport, has failed(this is the jordanian front that the syrian army has gained better control).

I was predicting something like this by Syria’s ennemies to keep the conflict on the news. It came from Aleppo where the insurgents are still active thanks to Turkey.

You hear here that rebels control Aleppo but the Governor in Aleppo is still appointed by the government.

If the Syrian government can control Aleppo, game over. Of course there will still be bombings like in Irak,…

FSA terrorists especially Al Nusra using car bombs. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. They are using scorched earth tactics, if they can’t capture an area they will decimate it.

It’s hilarious to hear the FSA saying the government bombed it when the explosion looks like a car bomb. There is no reason the government would bomb it’s own controlled facilities, the FSA used suicide and car bombings in the past.

for heaven sake, stop arming the rebels!

A coffee shop in London, called The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights proudly reports their deeds to the sponsors.

Reuters busily disseminates, some how putting Russia and coffee shop onto the same line, like equal weight.

People, the confusion about not knowing who commited this act is intentional on the part of the media. It took them a few hours to come up with a concerted story line. This story was broken by the syrian government who is showing it on TV and is giving an accurate toll.

I am following this sucker daily and I was fearing something like this was coming. The rebels were not producing anything on the battle front to feed the media since the alleged take over of a military base in Idleb.

Why are they silent about the “most effective” terrorist group Al Nusra? Isn’t this what they are most “effective” at?

This was planned. They waited the 1st day of exams to kill the most people.

On exam day everyone shows up and many students are combined on the same room. An ideal situation for terrorists.

The democracy strikes again!

@Kommy- not democracy- this is a power struggle and for some (the light headed idiots) a sporting event and an underhanded and covert battle for regional influence and a rush to riches somehow. Don’t debase democracy. Some forces within Syria aren’t patient or balanced enough now for democracy. Maybe democracy is really dead now world wide, the way the republic died in Rome. It was never as well made as it thought it was and the world’s population is much larger and having a harder time managing it’s own complexity now. Imperial preventions are more profitable and exciting than home based “seeing to one’s shop”.

The insurgents are absolutely as desperate as the Regime, if not more so because they know they have crossed the line of political reform and have embraced violent armed revolt. They know they are all dead men if they loose. You have to be a fool not to realize they kill civilians too. They are armed fugitives from justice.

It should be more than telling that there are no recognizable commanders, the foreign military aid the rebels receive is unofficial and no state is willing to risk it’s reputation on the fray except the parties like Russia and Iran who openly admit they support the regime. They are acting more legitimately than any of those who refuse to join. I’m not comfortable having to put it that way but Syria is just another episode in the world’s perpetual battle of balance of powers or is being seen that way by the big powers who really should exert their energies on more productive pursuits. The US has been frustrated in it’s long range goals to exert more influence in the ME. Regional powers are taking matters into their own hands and trying to destabelize each other.

FSA terrorists especially Al Nusra using car bombs. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. They are using scorched earth tactics, if they can’t capture an area they will decimate it.

It’s hilarious to hear the FSA claiming the government jet bombed it when the bombing does not look like it was an aerial bombardment. There is no reason the government would bomb it’s own controlled facilities, the FSA used suicide and car bombings in the past. Oh yeah, Islamists hate education. The FSA will probably abolish education if the come in power, go figure.

This has all the marks of the Baath (Assad and friends) party. A secular dictatorship influenced by post-war Stalinist and alike regimes, ruling since almost 50 years. This brutal explosion on a campus is similar to many dozens of heavy car bombs that the Baath party did in Lebanon during the 1974-1989 conflict to twist political will, almost all in populated packed civilian areas at rush hours, also in schools etc… If you research the Baath party ideology and history in Lebanon and Syria, you will discover their horrifying nature of rulership. It’s one of those regimes when if a civilian criticizes “even politely” the government, he/she will disappear in less than 24 hrs and released (if) a few months later not recognizing what his name was or who his father is. They did it in Lebanon when they were there for hundreds of Lebanese who disappeared for political speech, or for fighting back Syrian aggression. Many of the captured never came back from Mazze correctional/torture center in Syria, and the ones who came back returned crazy, psychologically reduced to a sheep. The Baath party main adherents are against religious belief, but they use it as a fake mask to control the Syrian population. The Baath party is the cancer disease of the Syrian republic, the people in Hama revolted in the 80s as well to overthrow this, but Assad the father (Hafez Al-Assad) bombed them with Mig and Sukhoi jet fighters killing more than twenty thousand Muslim women, men and children in a few days. The people remained silent for decades, until now they rebelled again and this time it is until the last one drops a martyr or overthrow the Baath party. I wish the people of Syria all the best of courage and faith to overcome this battle against an evil mark in Syrian history. For the young generation of Syrians who admire the Baath party I tell them brothers and sisters, open your eyes and hearts and look closer at what you’re admiring.

@tq.atallah – that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The Baath party already controls the country. If they were concerned that the Universities were becoming hot beds of “revolutionary” thinking, the “dictatorial powers” people are accusing the regime of using could easily have come up with some excuse to keep the university from opening for classes at all.